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...production than any other bankers. The Gianninis, never orthodox bankers, were all set to buy up-&-coming Ade Precision Products Corp. (Burbank, Calif.), specialist in aviation hydraulic and de-icing equipment. Actual purchase will be made by Giannini's $140,000,000 Transamerica Corp., which will swap about $1,700,000 worth of its Bank of America stock for 95% of outstanding Adel shares...
Today, in the interests of war, the traditionally competitive automobile business is displaying a capacity for teamwork undreamed of by the rough, tough pioneers who pounded the old Pontchartrain Bar. Today, the only secrets in Detroit are war secrets. Competitors share experience, swap tools, ideas and even skilled men to roll out production faster. In September they awed a British aircraft mission by agreeing to swap know-how across the Atlantic...
...early start, has already sold over $30,000,000 in bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit-she cold-shouldered an enthusiastic Chicagoan who wanted to swap a $25,000 bond for a kiss. Pert Frances Dee sold an embroidered negligee for $5,000 in Little Rock, Ark.; Greer Garson persuaded the 23,000 men, women and children in Bluefield, W.Va. to ante $450,000 in a single day. Beamed Treasury Secretary Morgenthau: "An outstanding success...
...Point hotel through a coal chute when he was caught out of bounds. There is MacArthur commanding the Rainbow Division in 1917, leading attacks in person. There is MacArthur in Washington obeying orders by clearing out the Bonus Marchers, but dropping in on their camp of an evening to swap talk with his old Rainbow men and give them money...
...humanitarian parenthesis amid the thundering oratory of warships' guns, the British and Italians were exchanging wounded, repatriating noncombatants. This was the first successful prisoner exchange in the war: the British and Germans had tried (TIME, Oct. 13), but their swap had failed when Germany insisted on making the exchange strictly man for man. (By the Geneva Convention of 1929, belligerents are required to return home seriously wounded prisoners, regardless of man-for-man exchange.) Italy knew better than to make such a demand-she was to get back more prisoners than she gave up. Off to Alexandria sailed...